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Quinn

I used to live in Saitama-shi and one afternoon spent an afternoon at the Meguro Parasitological Museum. There they displayed a 19th century ukiyo-e very similar to the "coming and going" above. It featured a man with, I assume, filaria being helped by another man to carry the first's much enlarged scrotum in a sling hung over a pole.
I assume you are currently living on Honshu. I'd highly recommend checking out the museum next time you have the chance. There are some enormous whale-borne parasites you'd likely enjoy.

HCT5

Pom Poko is a 3 hour foray into tanuki ball-sack weirdness. Holy crap it's fucking CRAZY. The fact that we were watching the chinese bootleg with appropriately engrished up subtitles did not help, but you'll notice that Disney hasn't licensed this Ghibli creation and probably never will. It was a wonderful movie but it would probably tank at the box office in America.

It wasn't Miyazaki, bit it was Studio Ghibli. The director is Isao Takahata.

we like pastries

Actually Pom Poko was part of a deal between Disney and Ghibli where Ghibli provides Disneey with ten animated movies and Disney airs/shows them unedited. It's just not well known because of it's hilarious subject matter that prudes can't handle well.

Darcie

rooka

obvious how much lighthearted and fun-having these people are into. like the simillarly funny raging boners i've seen in cartoons coming from this land, the tradition of art laughing loudest is a testament.

riddly

A bit more international than you think...."Viz" magazine (which had it's heyday in the 90's in the UK- and is still published) features a character called Buster Gonad who plays similar testicular tricks.......

BarbJ

Marissa

has anyone read tom robbin's villa incignito? the main character is a tanuki but they describe him as half badger half man... and yes with balls big enough to parachute with or something. weird, it's an amazing book though. a lot of odd shit like that